Vow Quotes - Page 3

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

Vows begin when hope dies.

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel.

What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.

Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life

[Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just had your vow renewal...this is the best part of your life now. There's not anything that you don't know anymore in terms of what's good and bad out there, so now you can just fly." She's always imparting wisdom like that.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

The word of God is my vow.

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.